Kalklosch reported that the Post Office moved from Main Street to Spring Street in mid-1880.

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Cora Pinkley Call reported that the Post Office was located at Spring and Short streets in 1881 -- T.M. Johnson was Postmaster.

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Post Office

Eureka Springs Post Office --- Carroll County, Arkansas

List of Postmasters and officers in charge

Note: According to Cora Pinkley Call, (writing in 1930) Dr. Cochran was first Postmaster and probably would have housed the Postoffice in his general store.

Note: According to Goodspeed,s History, written in 1888, Dr. McCarty was the first physician to Eureka Springs and was appointed the first postmaster.

Note: According to L.J. Kalklosch, because visitors to the springs were experiencing an extended stay in the hills and gulches --- they petitioned for a Post Office in order to get mail. Kalklosch, in 1887, stated that the first Postmaster, Dr. McCarty, was jailed for Fraud in 1880.

Name

Aaron W. McCarty

Zebulon M. Pettigrew

Thomas M. Johnson

Samuel Murphy

John W. True

Richard P. Pulliam

John H. Hamilton

John W. True

Mamie B. Watkins

Benjamin J. Rosewater

Clio W. Miller

John A. Bridgford

Enoch T. Smith

Hamlet Goudelock

Hamlet Goudelock

Legrand K. Charles

Robert D. Hudson

Harvey H. Fuller

Joe A. Morris

Cecil C. Walker

William A. Bowden

James W. Stone Jr.

John W. Baker

John W. Baker

William Bowden

Glenda W. Carr

Gerald L. Savage

George Eddie Kinard

James D. Ross

Julia F. Bingham

Lynette V. Lichlyter

David G. Leehans

David G. Leehans

Hubert D. Roberts

Beveriy A. Bailey

Dennis K. Wilson

Daryi Grant

Eddie W. Hickman

Richard P. White

John Confer

Natalie A. Smith

Ronald K. Kopp

Title

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Acting Postmaster

Acting Postmaster

Postmaster

Postmaster

Acting Postmaster

Postmaster

Acting Postmaster

Postmaster

Officer-In-Charge

Officer-In-Charge

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-In-Charge

Officer-In-Charge

Officer-In-Charge

Officer-In-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-in-Charge

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Officer-in-Charge

Officer-in-Charge

Officer-in-Charge

Postmaster

Date Appointed

10/21/1879

06/15/1880

03/08/1881

06/29/1881

12/20/1881

07/06/1885

08/25/1886

07/09/1889

12/21/1893

03/04/1898

04/15/1910

06/13/1914

11/24/1919

12/18/1919

06/04/1920

06/06/1924

05/01/1934

04/26/1935

09/09/1949

12/21/1950

09/29/1972

11/29/1972

02/16/1973

04/07/1973

04/03/1982

06/03/1988

09/10/1988

03/05/1994

04/18/1994

11/29/1994

04/03/1995

08/27/1995

09/07/2000

10/27/2000

11/18/2000

01/31/2003

04/05/2003

01/13/2005

03/04/2005

04/28/2005

03/04/2006

Cora Pinkley Call reported that the Post Office was located at Spring and Short streets in 1881, and T.M. Johnson was Postmaster.

Short Street is shown in this 1886 Sanborn Map

and today is part of the loop of Spring St at Pendergrass Corner

Short Street is no longer shown in 1892 Sanborn Map below.

Short Street was renamed Spring Street as it connected lower Spring St. with upper Spring St. After the 1888 Fire, some streets were eliminated or re-arranged --- Notice, below, the many vacant spaces where buildings had not yet been rebuilt after the fire.

In the below photo, the building housing the Post Office was located on Main Street in 1886, but destroyed by the 1890 fire and never rebuilt due to widening of Main and Spring streets.

This was in the south end of the Montgomery Building.

The Echo Times Flashlight reported in May 1991, that:

The Eureka Springs Post Office was established on October 21, 1879 with Aaron McCarty being the first postmaster. The postoffice moved several times during the early years primarily due to the frequency of downtown fires.

During the 1880s, it was located on the Second Floor of the Montgomery Building — as was the Daily Herald Newspaper Office. This Main Street location burned during the 1890 Fire that started in the nearby Perry House and was not replaced when street widening took priority after the downtown fires.

The Echo Times Flashlightreported in May 1991

The Flatiron Building housed the postoffice for a few years until it was moved in 1902 to the Ellis-Rosewater Building. The postoffice shared space there with the Daily Times-Echo

Mail was brought to Eureka Springs by train and was redistributed to other places by stage coach, thus making Eureka the area distribution point.

Below: The Ellis-Rosewater Building was built to provide the expanding need for postal services by the partnership of Dr. C.A. Ellis and Postmaster Benjamin J. Rosewater in 1900.

The completed Ellis-Rosewater Building housed the Postoffice in the right most bay area.

Below: Eureka Springs Post Office, as captioned in the archive photos of Eureka Springs Bank indicates the date of 1896.

If so, Mamie Watkins would have been Postmistress.

In 1918, the postoffice was removed to its present building at 101 Spring Street.

(Below Photos: show Front and Rear of new post office prior to 1918 move-in).

When postoffice services needed more space in 1971, the building was doubled in size and a parking area was built to its rear. (The arched columns which were back of the building now mark the line between the old and the new sections.)

Due to its historic significance, the postoffice maintained its original glass front customer mail boxes. Such boxes were removed from post offices nationwide for security reasons.

During renovations the post office leased space at 9 N. Main for six months — only a 20 minute interruption of services existed upon returning to the newly enlarged building on Spring Street.

In 1973, mail was delivered to two urban routes and two rural routes by eleven employees.

The Federal government’s attempt to close and relocate the post office yielded to local citizen preservationists —as phrased by the U.S. Postmaster General, “due to public interest and inability to find a suitable relocation site . . .”